Word: anguishes
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...anguish of waiting and hoping finally brought a burst of phone calls from the Pentagon last week. For 562 families, the years of uncertainty were over, and in a euphoric flush, they rushed to prepare for the homecoming...
Lila's departure is in one respect a relief to an audience torn between laughing at her buffoonery and crying at her deep anguish. But without her, the movie loses its humanness, and is quickly trivialized into an exchange of bon mots. Neither Lenny nor Kelly has a heart to be broken, and that is precisely the problem. Cybill Shepherd in particular lacks the range of acting emotion necessary to sustain the human relationships at anything more than a superficial level; a serious flaw in the latter part of the film is her inability to warm up to the very...
...betrayal. From the President on down, few Americans are making exaggerated claims?a refreshing change in style for U.S. rhetoric. In his eloquent press briefing (see page 13), Henry Kissinger remarked that "it should be clear by now that no one in the war has had a monopoly of anguish and that no one has a monopoly of insight." It is a recognition of the fact that in the future the U.S. will have to adopt a more modest posture before the complex processes of history, to refrain from trying to remake the world in its own image, to learn...
After a brief ceremony, the coffin was carried to a hearse for the clanging procession to the cemetery. At the tomb, food was placed on the coffin, in accordance with Buddhist ritual, to sustain the soul on its otherworld journey. During the graveside ceremony, the audible and visible anguish of the family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor...
...with a single-mind-edness and skill that no other man in high office could have mustered. He somehow reached out and comprehended that incredible problem, surrounded it and mastered all the details. In the short view, at least, he produced a near miracle in a storm center of anguish...